Docspell is a free and open-source personal document management system that allows you to organize and manage your digital documents. In this tutorial, we will guide you through the process of installing Docspell on Windows 11 operating system.
Before proceeding with the installation, you need to make sure that your system meets the following requirements:
The first step is to download Docspell from the official website. You can download the latest version of Docspell by visiting the following link: https://docspell.org/download
Docspell requires PostgreSQL to store the document index and metadata. You can download and install PostgreSQL from the official website: https://www.postgresql.org/download/.
After downloading PostgreSQL, run the installer and follow the installation wizard to install PostgreSQL on your system.
Once PostgreSQL is installed, you need to create a new database for Docspell. To do this, open the PostgreSQL command prompt and run the following commands:
CREATE DATABASE docspell;
CREATE USER docspell WITH PASSWORD 'docspell';
GRANT ALL PRIVILEGES ON DATABASE docspell TO docspell;
These commands will create a new database named docspell, a new user named docspell with the password docspell, and grant all privileges to the docspell user.
After downloading Docspell, extract the archive to a folder of your choice. Then, go to the conf directory and edit the application.properties file using a text editor.
In the application.properties file, look for the following lines:
spring.datasource.url=jdbc:postgresql://localhost/docspell
spring.datasource.username=docspell
spring.datasource.password=docspell
Edit these lines with your PostgreSQL database details. For example, if you have installed PostgreSQL on the same machine, you can leave the URL as it is. Replace the username and password with the username and password you created in Step 3.
To start Docspell, go to the extracted folder and run the following command in the terminal:
java -jar docspell.jar
This will start Docspell and you can access it by opening your web browser and navigating to http://localhost:8080.
Congratulations, you have successfully installed and configured Docspell on your Windows 11 operating system. You can now use Docspell to organize and manage your digital documents.
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